Tag: Transformation
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A training program in transformation: Implications of Sloterdijk’s You Must Change Your Life
This is the tenth and final set of reflections on Peter Sloterdijk’s You Must Change Your Life: On Anthropotechnics (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013). The first set of reflections can be read here. A summary of Sloterdijk’s principal theses is available here. An overview of my posts (what I term ‘the thrust of his argument’) can be found here. * Let us recall that Sloterdijk has…
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Philosophical portraiture: The common ear
The screen shot included below is an example of philosophical portraiture by Aleksandra Marcella Lauro. Philosophical portraiture is concerned with the project of self-cultivation–specifically, with how one comes into contact with what is higher. Here, the figure on the viewer’s left is wholesome, earnest, yet naive in the ways of the world. The figure on…
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Invitation: 3 months, 3 small patrons, 1 life transformed
Invitation This post is an investigation of a perplexing case concerning how a young person and I can work together as well as an invitation to a young person who would like to. If the following scenario applies to you and you’d like to get in touch with me, you can do so through the…
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Roberto Unger on ‘the future of the left’
A breathtaking interview with Roberto Unger, “The Future of the Left,” The European (October 24, 2011) about the need to think differently. My curating below. (If you grant Unger’s conclusions, then you’ll have to also grant how truly “paradigm-shifting” his ideas are.) — Rethinking Modern Institutions “My view is that all the fundamental problems of the European…
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